Thursday, 24 June 2010

Just received this great video from Simon Le Boggit of Mental Health. He writes ...

It's all happening next week. The song BOMBASTIC MIND by my band MENTAL HEALTH has been chosen as one of 40 songs taking part in the Storm The Charts campaign (stormthecharts.com), which currently has over 30,000 supporters signed up to it.

The idea is to flood the UK Top 40 chart with 40 songs by fresh new "unsigned" artists. The mass download week starts at midnight on Saturday 26th June, and runs through to Sunday 4th July - "Independent's Day".

The BOMBASTIC MIND mp3 can be downloaded from Amazon, iTunes etc – details of their UK branches (which register on the UK chart) can be found on MENTAL HEALTH’s website here:

This heretical association was so promptly and vehemently denied by the TAM London organizers that I grew suspicious of their paranoia.

I have therefore been investigating the secret dark religious underbelly of TAM London and I have unearthed the following disturbing similarities.

Firstly, all delegates will start the day by reciting the Randi Prayer in unison:

Our ConjurorWho art in FloridaAmazing be thy nameThy Million-Dollar ChallengeWill not be doneGive us this dayEmpirical evidenceAnd debunk our irrationalityAs we debunk those who make unsubstantiated claims to usAnd lead us not into woo wooBut deliver us from credulityFor thine is the rationalityThe logic and the reasonUntil unequivocal evidence proves otherwise

There will also be Skeptical Hymns lead by Tim Minchin and a Scripture study with Robin Ince who will be reading the lessons from the gospels of Carl Sagan.

What’s more, I am unreliably informed that Father Wiseman and Monsignor French will man skeptical confession boxes. These will offer the congregation the ability to anonymously confess their secret irrational beliefs, such as once visiting a naturopath or even being abducted by aliens. Delegates will be then been given a suitable penance before being granted absolution from their dirty irrational beliefs.

In addition to this, delegates will be invited to partake in a Skeptical communion where they will consume the body and blood of Douglas Adams, thinly disguised as bangers and mash with a pint of warm beer.

Finally I even hear the event may well include the beatification of Martin Gardner.